All this time I thought it was a nuclear triggering device fashioned on RCA vacuum tubes and what looks like a transistor...I almost got ready to contact the authorities then saw it was on TV..whew false alarm.http://www.unit16.net/tie2.htm

Thanks Sys, I had not seen that recap before and came up empty with the schematic search alone. The schematic is interesting to me because it shows the effect of trying to swizzle technical symbols common at that time into more complex meaning. On a white print no less. Gotta love Hollywood. The tube is classic and not represetitive at all of the usual symbol and there's no I/O markings on critical parts to prevent mis-wiring. It is what it is intended for - a few seconds of drama not art. Hand the graphic artist a book of engineering symbols and let him/she go to town!

Now the parallels with the LAP design is best left to another topic. (non-humor, but then again who knows)

I'm off to look at the pictures of the interociter parts inventory and maybe pop Forbidden Planet in the player.

Great Stuff! I posted since you had that one from the TV..did not know if you needed moreYou mentioned Forbidden Planet another favorite of mine..I bet they did borrow a tad from TIE as they had a pre re;lease copy. Thats where the Krell language originated I believe.Did you know 2 people still left alive Rex Reason and another..Russel Johnson the guy who played the Professor on Gilligans Island...IMDB had some good quotes and trivia too on it..and if you see the key plot words listed on IMDB you see the Caret writers followed the Hollywood version faithfullyhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/quotes

Joe Wilson: Cal, I - I know everybody's seeing flying saucers and screwy lights up in the sky. Well, you can put me in the booby hatch too, because, so help me, I saw this ship turn a bright green up there.Dr. Cal Meacham: Are you sure, Joe?Joe Wilson: Positive.Dr. Cal Meacham: Did you hear anything?Joe Wilson: Yes. A high-frequency howl, very high, all the time your ship was...Dr. Cal Meacham: Green. Did Webb see it?Joe Wilson: Unless he's blind.Dr. Cal Meacham: Check him.Joe Wilson: Right.Dr. Cal Meacham: Oh, and Joe... until we find out what happened, all three of us were blind.

Share this quote[a mysterious catalog is delivered]Dr. Cal Meacham: This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal![reads]Dr. Cal Meacham: "Iterociter incorporating planetary generator. Iterociter with voltarator. With astroscope."Joe Wilson: Here's something my wife could use in the house. An "iterociter incorporating an electron sorter."Dr. Cal Meacham: Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.Joe Wilson: Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.Dr. Cal Meacham: "Complete line of iterociter parts, incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics." What exactly is an iterociter?Joe Wilson: I don't know, and I don't want to know.Dr. Cal Meacham: Well, I do. I want to know what it is and what it does. Order the list of parts on these pages.

Good Luck on Forbidden Planet!Note he has a list of movies besides on that recap FP that were benchmarks..lol The Mysterians! thats was funny Japanese SCi Fi..Im so happy these websites are outhereto honor these great films.

I find it interesting that there has been no truly convincing debunking on the â€˜Isaacâ€™ material, even after this much time has passed.() One must admit, (edit..must we? ) even if grudgingly, that if this was a hoax, it was rather brilliantly done. From a purely graphic standpoint, the language and itâ€™s presentation is remarkably beautiful, and the photos remain a mystery, (Edit:Mystery indeed,how quickly they were picked apart by amateurs..)with no mechanical antecedent yet found.(edit..cough..cough..) Even aspects of the story which are glibly dismissed as being â€˜low grade science fictionâ€™ are actually quite compelling and sophisticated. If this is a hoax, I for onetip my hat to the ingenuity and artistic brilliance of its creator!(Edit: seeing no handouts placed in his asshat..He dons it back on..and walks away into the shadows)

The southwest corner of Georgia is a very interesting place. It has a history of what one might call wealthy hunting plantations and the military. Why not search it out for yourself. I have often wondered if the writers of "This Island Earth" knew of this. Probably a humorous coincidence.